CoVid 19 presented unique challenges for the safe practice of acupuncture in community settings. In addition to already existant requirements for safe clinical field practice, including clean needle technique, professional clinical protocols, environmental concerns, and working safely on a service team, pandemic-safe clinics require particular safety practices: Physical distancing, proper ventilation of venue, outdoor set up, masking of patients and practitioners, temperature checks and symptom screening, safe patient/practitioner choreography when setting up and conducting clinics. This course outlines the extra safety concerns and techniques for safe CoVid-era community mobile clinics to ensure safety of patients and practitioners.
GOALS & OBJECTIVES- Ability to identify all specific and universal practices required for pandemic-safe mobile clinics: masking, physical distancing in the clinic, maximizing proper ventilation, hand washing, temperature and symptom checks, preventing physical contact between patients.
- Knowing the specific roles/tasks of all team members when setting up and providing pandemic-safe clinical services.
- Ability to create a safe clinical space for patients including how patients will enter, sit, and exit clinic, as well as instructions for patients.
- Ability to assist patients with self-ear seeding for stress relief.
What's included?
Once you finish all of the above, including a passing grade on the quiz, you will be able to download your CEU certificate. If applicable, the NCBAHM will email your PDA certificate once we have notified them that you have completed this course.
